We spend more money on advertising in the United States than on all our public institutions of higher education. In education, America is not ahead. There is good reason to believe that a Japanese High School diploma is the equivalent of an average American bachelor's degree.

The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with progressive education, a diploma with competence and achievement, and fluency with the ability to say something new. A liberal education is now out of the question. The students cram to memorize every conceivable unconnected rote detail. They regurgitate on the exam, get a grade, and sometimes don't even learn which questions they missed or why. In fact, they don't even care as long as they pass. The healthiest thing in this situation is the speed with which the students cleanse their minds of the awful intellectual conglomeration with which they have stuffed themselves and forget the entire meaningless substance of the course. They are taught the rote procedures and not the significance. They hate school and think it superfluous. To be smart is to be square. No wonder Johnny can't read. [99, 160, 229, 242]

The Lord has given Christians the grace to reconcile the children to their Fathers